Virginia Nurse Charged With Breaking Bones of Infants in NICU, But Attacks Not Racially Motivated
In the first week of January 2025, several news outlets reported that a nurse in Virginia had been arrested on charges of malicious wounding and felony child abuse after several babies in her hospital's neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) suffered "unexplainable fractures ."
Black family speaks out after NICU nurse responsible for infant’s broken leg charged with felony abuse
Dominique Hackey’s son sustained a broken leg while recovering at the Henrico Doctors’ Hospital in Richmond, Virginia. A former nurse
Former Virginia nurse charged with felony child abuse amid probe into NICU babies suffering 'unexplained fractures'
A former Virginia nurse at the Henrico Doctors’ Hospital was charged with malicious wounding and child abuse amid a probe into babies suffering unexplained fractures.
Former NICU nurse faces charges in infant abuse case
The troubling series of events came to light when medical staff identified three infants with unusual fractures during late 2024.
3 NICU babies found with ‘unexplainable’ fractures, officials say. Now, woman charged
Erin Elizabeth Ann Strotman, 26 is charged with malicious wounding and felony child abuse in connection to a November incident at the Henrico Doctors’ Hospital in Richmond, Henrico County Police said in a Jan. 3 news release. A spokesperson for HCA Healthcare told McClatchy News the woman was a former employee at the hospital.
Virginia nurse charged with child abuse after NICU babies were found with unexplained injuries
Police in Virginia arrested a NICU nurse at Henrico Doctors’ Hospital, charging the woman with felony counts of malicious wounding and child abuse after several babies had unexplained injuries.
Families of babies injured in Henrico Doctors' NICU attend arraignment for nurse charged: 'Makes me sick'
Families of other babies injured in the NICU at Henrico Doctors' Hospital attended Friday’s arraignment for a nurse charged in connection to one of the cases.
Nurse charged with abuse after multiple newborns suffer fractures in intensive care unit
A Virginia woman has been arrested on charges including child abuse after more than a half-dozen babies suffered fractures during a span of more than a year at the Virginia neonatal intensive care unit where she previously worked.
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Father of hospital NICU attack victim says babies had one thing in common
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Ex-nurse arrested after NICU babies suffer fractures at Virginia hospital
Erin Strotman, 26, has only been charged in the one incident so far, but there's an investigation into more than half a dozen ...
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Henrico Doctors’ Hospital NICU license to operate on ‘conditional renewal’
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Family responds after Virginia nurse arrested in NICU investigation
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Children’s of Alabama expands NICU unit
Children’s of Alabama has announced the expansion of its neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The NICU now has an additional ...
'They failed, simple as that': NICU nurse accused of 'malicious wounding' of premature babies including fracturing one infant's leg
According to the hospital, three babies suffered "unexplained fractures" in November. It followed four other babies who ...